It seems that many threads are popping up with questions about minimum computer specs and if their computer will run the Beta. In order to keep things in a single location and to help others who might also have questions, I have created this thread. Here you can confirm your computer meets the minimum specs, learn how to upgrade your computer, and ask questions about parts for a new build. Do not forget that these specs are for BETA and could change for the full release.

Think that about covers it. I'm not an avid gamer, I just want to be able to have D3 run well enough for me to play it occassionally without me having to invest $1000 in a new setup. Any opinions on how well it would run on my setup would be appreciated.

Edit: I was looking through the list of graphics cards and while my 9500gt is marked 'low', the 9500gs which only has 128-512Mb of ddr2 ram is marked 'medium'. This makes no sense to me. Perhaps the 9500GT that they tested was a worse one than the one I have. Also did a search in some forums and most of them say that the gs is worse than the gt. :S

Great gaming or everyday use pc. Extremely fast and less than three months old. Selling because I need to pay some bills. The front fan LED doesn't work but it wont impact performance or anything. 1TB hard drive, 8 gb ram, and 3.3 ghz six core amd processor.Looking for 800 o.b.o

Great gaming or everyday use pc. Extremely fast and less than three months old. Selling because I need to pay some bills. The front fan LED doesn't work but it wont impact performance or anything. 1TB hard drive, 8 gb ram, and 3.3 ghz six core amd processor.Looking for 800 o.b.o

So if you wanted to buy that all new you would pay over $1k for it. Thats not even including the $150 for windows or the extras he is throwing in. So yea thats a good deal as long as it is all in good shape.

I ran the SC2 beta just fine at "High" settings. I am sure that I will be happy with "Mid" settings for Diablo 3 until I can afford a new laptop. Newegg has some pretty nice Asus laptops for about a grand that will smoke D3 and most of the games that are out now on "Ultra" settings. Hurray for tax returns! At least running and getting used to seeing D3 on "Mid" settings gives me something to look forward to when I do get my new laptop...I will then get to see it on "High". Should be sweet.

At most I will upgrade this systems video card to like a Nvidia 540 or 560...only spending about 200 bucks to "max" this system out but I would rather just put my money into a new laptop.

I do have a good question though.
Is the physics engine in D3 software or hardware based?
In other words, do you require one of those "physics cards" to get the effects or is it running something like "Havok"?

I am pretty sure that is all handled by the GPU now. Physic cards really never took off and most games have the CPU calculate some of the physics. So I guess the answer to your question is no, your not going to need one of those cards.

So if you wanted to buy that all new you would pay over $1k for it. Thats not even including the $150 for windows or the extras he is throwing in. So yea thats a good deal as long as it is all in good shape.

Think that about covers it. I'm not an avid gamer, I just want to be able to have D3 run well enough for me to play it occassionally without me having to invest $1000 in a new setup. Any opinions on how well it would run on my setup would be appreciated.

Edit: I was looking through the list of graphics cards and while my 9500gt is marked 'low', the 9500gs which only has 128-512Mb of ddr2 ram is marked 'medium'. This makes no sense to me. Perhaps the 9500GT that they tested was a worse one than the one I have. Also did a search in some forums and most of them say that the gs is worse than the gt. :S

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The game will be playable at low settings. The GT is indeed better than the GS, this is the performance in ascending order : GS, GT, GTS, and GTX (and also Ultra). The "Diablo 3 Supported Video Cards" is indeed far from perfect.

Does anything think when Diablo 3 comes out the system requirements will drop alittle?

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Possible but at this stage I wouldn't count on it.

@Axamas :
And the reason why that new (HD 6450) card ranks so low is because it's not a videocard aimed at gaming. It's great for video playback though and especially for an htpc with the low profile brackets.

@Tilitoon :
Yeah, it doesn't look perfect at all and my guess is that those results are from beta testers with several of them having overclocked gpu and/or cpu changing results quite a bit. A card running ok at low could potentially work with medium settings after a good overclock.